Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: #2 Due process for wives
Time for another installment of Stuff Muslims Don’t Like.
#2: Due process for wives.
In Malaysia, Islamic Sharia law allows men to divorce their wives with a triple talaq text message.
Coming to the US?
Well, here’s a small dose of sanity–surprising, I know–from Maryland’s Supreme Court, which refused to recognize Islamic divorce. Yes, you can resist sharia creep:
Saying “I divorce thee” three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you’re a resident of Maryland, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday.
Yesterday, the Court of Appeals rejected a Pakistani man’s argument that his invocation of the Islamic talaq, under which a marriage is dissolved simply by the husband’s say-so, allowed him to part with his wife of more than 20 years and deny her a share of his $2 million estate.
The justices affirmed a lower court’s decision overturning a divorce decree obtained in Pakistan by Irfan Aleem, a World Bank economist who moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.
Both of their children were born in the United States.
In 2003, Aleem’s wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
When he filed a counterclaim, he did not object to the court’s jurisdiction over the case, according to the ruling. But before the legal process could be completed – and without telling his wife – Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in Washington and invoked the talaq, in effect attempting to turn jurisdiction of the case over to a Pakistani court that later granted him a divorce.
When they were married in Karachi in 1980, Farah Aleem was 18 and had just graduated from high school. Irfan Aleem was 29, a doctoral candidate at Oxford University in England. As is customary, the couple signed a marriage contract. It obligated Aleem to give his wife the equivalent of $2,500 in the event of their divorce. When they split, he did so, and claimed he owed her nothing more.
Maryland’s highest court disagreed.
“If we were to affirm the use of talaq, controlled as it is by the husband, a wife, a resident of this state, would never be able to consummate a divorce action filed by her in which she seeks a division of marital property,” the judges wrote in their decision.
They said the talaq “directly deprives the wife of the due process she is entitled to when she initiates divorce litigation.”
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What women think they have rights???
SARCASM OFF
Hmmm…. actualy a tough one…
She did sign a “marriage contract” which would be like a Pre Nup here…
Don’t like Sharia law, but contract law is a whole other issue.
If this thing were to have gone to the supreme court, $100 says Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have favored the husbad, of course citing that since other nations do it, it must be okay.
Glad she’s going to get her day in court. Shouldnt be any other way.
And Toto too? There’s no place like Q’um!
Is it risky for me to feel a bit more confidence in our Judiciary?
I applaud the wife for going after him!
Pttt, that’s nothing. In Texas, Christian fundamentalists can not only have MULTIPLE wives but can also have sex with underage girls!
I don’t know.. If we could get them to apply Sharia consistently. it may have it’s advantages for us..
I deport you
I deport you
I deport you!
=P
~Dan Lee
Maybe all the angry Muslim husbands will leave and take their Sharia with them. Good riddance. They can live in the Middle Ages somewhere else.
#5, what they used to do and still do in some places is “marry” a woman for the night, have a one night stand, then 3 sentences later they are free and clear. I this senerio they often don’t bother asking the woman however. It was used in the context of military conquest to excuse the rape that usualy went with that in the 7th century. A nice little loop hole, For the guy at least.
sausage, you have no idea. It is far more widespread than that. The allred group has colonies in europe.
I want a cheeseburger
I want a cheeseburger
I want a cheeseburger
Carp it didn’t work.
“moved from London to Maryland with his wife, Farah Aleem, in 1985.
Both of their children were born in the United States.
In 2003, Aleem’s wife filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court.”
Dude’s been living in the state, as 1/2 of a married couple, for 20 years, and SHE filed in Maryland.
dude doesn’t have a leg to stand on!
/which, of course, makes him pretty much like the rest of males in u.s. divorce courts nowadays …
//HA-HA!
I cut off your head, I cut off your head, I cut off your head! There, thats what these ‘husbands” really mean.
That’s what you get for asking a carp for a cheesburger!
*kidding*
I’m like the king of typos…
Yeah, because law enforcement isn’t investigating them, right?
Sausage, you are Manning’s Corrollary personified. And that’s not a compliment.
Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice!
Beetlejuice!
Those Muslims watch too many American movies.
not a typo, my substitute word.
That’s what you get for asking a carp for a cheesburger!
lol, you’re right. bows to king.
sausage,
why cant you just admit justice was served, or that what he did was wrong and not how our laws are upheld, instead of pulling something offtopic?
Dismissed.
Things muslums don’t like:
The 21st century…or the 20, 19, 18…
Something tells me she might get hit by a bus or other.
I do believe muslums would like sausage, even though he’s full of #$%&. (pork)
Sorry to have to point out the obvious, but not all who SAY they are Christian really are.. Which is why the bible warned: “You will know them by the fruit they bear”.
So if this was an attempt to slander Christianity, it was a pretty sad & weak one..
Be gone trolls.
Be gone trolls.
Be gone trolls.
Oh please, I hope that one works!
Please remove that triple picture of my Mom off of our website!
(hehe, just kidding)
Yes, it’s true, Muslims find him more inspirational than Muhammad himself!
That works for the man, can the wife say that three times to divorce him?
I reckon I’m just old fashioned, but my Dad taught me to have more respect for my wife than that.
Nice to hear the muslims have to adhere to US laws, but the illegals do not.
L
liberal wet dream:
I impeach thee
I impeach thee
I impeach thee
Does it bother anyone else that he is “a World Bank economist”…
I think the law in Maryland is,
I get half
I get half
I get half
& the kids, & the house, & the car, etc…
As much as I hate to say this, I’m going to say this.
I fear it won’t be too long before somebody (probably her husband) decides that she’s an ‘apostate’ and goes to the local Imam stating that she must be killed.
I sincerly fear for her safety.
Divorce lawyers hate this too.
The question I have is does the text message automatically remove the wife from the friends and family calling plan?
Hey, if I tap my heels together three times, can I send them all back to the middle east?
# 31 B,.red..
The fact that Aleem’s a “World Bank economist”
…. bothered me too.
Do the Muslim oil barons and their minions own all banks or just most of them!?
It’s time to start drilling into our billions of gallon oil reserves here in the good ol’ U.S.
The environmentalists be D- – - ed.
This strikes at the essence of what it means to be an American, or even just a resident of the U.S. There is ONE law that applies equally to EVERYONE. That’s why we can’t give shari’a even a tiny toehold anywhere in this country. It’s also why we must shift the immigration debate back to law enforcement, where it belongs, and away from race, where the libs have successfully moved it.
what if he messes up and says it 2 times??? or 4 times??? How about once in writing and notarized? Can sharia be any more *bleeping* backwards and stupid???
She only needs to show that she signed it under duress, and it will be voided by the court. It would not be hard to prove that an 18 year old women in Pakistan being forced into a marriage was forced to sign the “contract” under duress.
yes. if they want to get re married she will have to marry someone else first.
Well according to sharia, she should not be able to read the text anyway… what’s up wit dat?
Muslums don’t just hate bikinis!
foxnews story
Seriously, any self-respecting woman should never marry an Islamic man or tolerate sharia in any form. Their main scripture enshrines treating women horribly. Where’s the NOW wackos when you need them?
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4 8 16 15 23 42
4 8 16 15 23 42
LOL put 15 before 16. Thank you very much.
Don’t you hate it when you blow it!
MM is 100% right here. Not only that, but she’s on the same side of this issue with all main stream feminist organizations, NOW in particular.
Jewish women have the same problem — husbands have the right to refuse to grant a divorce. Modern orthodox brides often require the groom to sign a contract promising to give a religious divorce (a “get”) if the couple gets a secular divorce. A court held itself unable to enforce such a contract because it had no authority on religious practice.
Now to go after the washing basins and prayer rooms( that a certain company here in Mn allows then to use phone rooms for)…..
and the teaching of Sharia in charter schools.
Anti Christian meme in three , two, one……..
The thing that continually amazes me, is that they don’t have a problem living here and enjoying the fruits of capitalism, but then try to inject their 7th century bassackwards religious law into our society.
If you want to live under sharia, go to a country that lives under sharia. The world bank was established by imperialist infidels, why are you working for them? Couldn’t get a job at a muslim bank in pakiland?
Things muslims don’t like . . . .Pork Rinds with hot sauce.
I guess you have your answer – dern it.
Too bad Paul McCartney wasn’t Muslim…
Sambo re; Fox #41…
“The court sided with the school, saying that the state’s responsibility to educate the girl outweighed an infringement on her religious freedom.”
State responsibility to educate outweighing freedom… hmmmm… in Germany, hmmmm. And some people want OUR courts to consider foreign laws, hmmmm.
If the Dems get a hold of this it could be bad.
That’s like saying:
Michelle breathes air so she agrees with NOW because they breathe air.
Your an idiot!
“
isn’t that an oxymoron, like patriotic democrat or something?
Glad to see, at least, that Islamic talaq or any Islamic law doesn’t not override the laws of this country. I’ve been to Malaysia, and, watching the government at work there, makes me happy to be back here. First thing you learn is that you don’t disagree with the government there, as a citizen. The morality police is for real there too. If this case was in Massachusetts, Vermont or California, they would have ruled that Islamic law takes precedence; mustn’t upset the moslems. I’m surprised Maryland didn’t go with him.
Shoulda, moved to Dearborn…
ROFles and LOLies.
If these guys weren’t such douche bags, they’d bring the funny.
In my best Steve Martin voice…
I break with thee…
I break with thee..
I break with thee.
Then you throw dog pewp on her shoe.
BREAKING NEWS
Al-Masri, head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has been captured in Mosul!!!
Now back to our regular programming.
txvet2: I hope they read him his rights!!! we expect soft pillows and an alcu lawyer to be proved STAT. And a turn down service, the 4th amendment clearly demands a turn down service…
Liberal hand wringing weanie mode off.
This is not an islamic nation (yet). This is not Jerusalem. THIS IS AMERICA. If you do not like it, then pack up your sharia ways and leave.
I would not expect to move to an islamic country and demand to have billboards of girls in bikinis, nor demand that everyone stop wearing islamic clothing because I find it offensive, so WHY THE HELL IS IT OK FOR THEM TO DO THAT HERE??
GET THE HELL OUT. NOW.
nyc123me, To understand this you must enter liberal hand wrining weanie mode.
liberal = leftover 1960s anti establishment rebel hippies..
berkley code pink alert. They are down to 1 woman carrying her baby arround. Man they are sinking fast. (I am watching foxnews “protest cam” on and off)
Wow. Normally in divorce proceedings I take the guy’s side so long as the woman is taken care of relative to the means of the husband. But this makes me mad. He just wanted to dump her after 20 years and leave her with just 2500 dollars. That’s ridiculous.
I don’t understand why western women want to marry men from this culture. They actually believe that women are inferior creatures. I would think they’d have compassion for their ex wives and want them to at least be able to take care of themselves. This guy was just mean and greedy. When you marry you become family especially if you have kids. Why would you want your family to suffer at the hands of your own greed? Thank goodness justice prevailed here.
There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
There’s no place like home.
I’m outta here like a bald man!
You don’t get it thacker – these people don’t feel compassion..it doesn’t exsist for them. Any people who can have a woman on her knees and shoot her in the head because they perceived that she “looked” at a man – there is no compassion in these people.
If this guy gets his way, the US goverment just send him a text message:
We renounce your citizenship!
We renounce your citizenship!
We renounce your citizenship!
And off he goes back to Parkistan.
If this guy gets his way, the US government just send him a text message:
We renounce your citizenship!
We renounce your citizenship!
We renounce your citizenship!
And off he goes back to Parkistan.
BOOOO FREAKIN HOOOOO. They don’t like emergency drills either.
Rehab should tell his people to stop the terrorism and maybe we wouldn’t focus on them.
“Faux News Alert”
Two muslim men fall to death off santa monica pier!
Men observed two hotties walking down center of pier in thongs eating bacon wrapped hot dogs and lept to their demise.
film at 11:00
I have not seen the last two seasons. Has the numbers been explained?
The Text Message got me.
Aisha was a 9 year old girl who was married to 51 year old, (do with Michael Buffer intro) “The Prophet,the 8th Wonder of the world, Endorsed by the Stone and Rock Lobbyists of the
Middle East and with the Special Blessings of Imams everywhere in this corner… Mohammad)
Which I find in the text message above her named was used as well. Interesting.
Though how could we think this “movement” could progress to women’s rights when they’re still chopping heads off. I guess they made it to the 1800’s.
BTW, DailyKos.com is a vomit ridden place and the type of street you tell your kids to stay away from.
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out….
Will any Muslims encourage us to read these links? They provide a decent summary of Islam and the tactics they use to ‘attack’ civilized societies.
These links answer the questions about the existence of a moderate Muslim with an emphatic NO.
Ethical War Part 1
Ehtical War Part 2
Ethical War Part 3
Ethical War Part 4
Ethical War Part 5
Our good friends the Hindus of India have a tradition of treating women as badly as Muslims. Modern India has almost completele stamped out the custom of burning the wife alive in the husband’s funeral pyre.
But the Hindus are good people because they too hate Muslims.
Save a Hindu, burn a troll.
LOL Aj#73
I’m late to the Muslim bashing party..but has anybody mentioned that they hate deodorant? i would like to be the first to say so if not. thank you.
lgm ranted:
Were you dropped as a baby?
I bet it happened at one of those code pink protests with the bad mothers.
I didn’t know Muslims spoke “King James” English.
So you see, it is possible for religions to grow and mature. It’s just too bad that you’re not willing to recognize the ones that aren’t as dangerous. Rather, you’d rather bring up past aggressions (most of which happened generations ago…if not centuries ago) as an excuse for not critiquing current evils. Woe be to those who can’t see evil when it is right in front of them.
Hahaha.. I rest my case.. =P
Is that the same India that wrote the “kama Sutra” ?
False analogy. Muslim doctrine supports these particular concepts of divorce, whereas Christian doctrine does not support polygamy, much less statutory rape.
A doctrine should be judged on its own merits, not on the merits of its followers. The Pakistani man followed Muslim doctrine to its logical conclusion, whereas the Texas cult members did not follow through on Christian doctrine.
It’s ironic that this sort of argument comes from Christianity’s detractors who have not looked at the logical conclusions of their own atheistic faith. What is the logical result of a culture dedicated to moral relativism?
Very well put, and now we can expect the Crusades to be brought up for the same relativism in 5, 4, 3, 2, …
I think the reason that the Hindus stopped that sort of thing is because the Brits took over and forced them to.
There is a story that a group of Hindus protested the ban on suttee on the grounds that it was their tradition to do so. The Englishman to whom the complaint was addressed replied to the effect that since it was their tradition, they were free to go ahead and follow it, but to bear in mind that it was the English custom to hang men who burned women alive…
In short, I believe LGM has a point – cultural imperialism rocks!
Good to hear. Their sentiments and religion may be stuck in the 7th century, but they quickly embrace today’s technology if it suits them.
Maybe the judicial system can be further used to establish other sanctions and to promote traditional values … e.g., wife – beating becomes a mandatory prison sentence of __ years…
Back to the general category of Stuff MDL:
I recall seeing somewhere that the devout look with disdain at mowing your lawn or doing anything similarly “un-natural”, like gardening … jeez!!
And, it’s surprising that no one has mentioned the olympics and similar events — those disgusting views of women, competing in gymnastics, figure skating, etc.
…maybe speed skating is OK, because the woman is completely covered…
Stuff Muslim’s Don’t like #3 (yet White People love)
BACON!!!
Until this is resolved there can never be peace.
how come when LGM post , I think it is Alan colmes?
It isn’t like Western culture has been decent by contemporary standards for than a few decades. 150 years ago, slavery was legal in the U.S.; 100 years ago women couldn’t vote, there weren’t any child labor laws, and life expectancy wasn’t very long. If we look at Europe, the situation in most places was pretty nasty in the West until after WWII and in the East until after the fall of the USSR. I’m not saying “Oh, western culture is evil! How dare we judge Muslims!,” but I am saying that it’s not the case that we’re perfect and that it’s definitely not the case that a society with some things very very wrong (e.g., the US in the 1850s) can’t improve. It’s also worth remembering that the denigration by seculars of the values of a religion (even when these values are worth denigrating, as is the case here), results in these values are clung to that much more fervently; e.g., the rise of fundamentalist Protestantism in the U.S. as a reaction to liberal Protestant theology, or German and Irish Catholics in the late 19th c. under Kulturkampf and British colonialism. Just from a pragmatic level, the more modernity casts itself as opposed to Muslims, the more Muslims will hate modernity. Looking for common cause, if it can be found, is more likely to be successful if history tells us anything. Whether or not that cause can be found is another issue, and I have no idea what that cause would be.
And if you’re going to launch into pointless name-calling, at least make sure you know on what point we disagree. I’m not drawing an equivalence between the West’s past and Islam’s past or present, but an analogy. I’m not saying Islam doesn’t have problems. And I’m not saying that we shouldn’t criticize Islam, just that the history of conflicts between secularization and religion suggests that that approach won’t accomplish much if it’s too adversarial.
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I have to go now & weep a little bit.
If we spin three times to the right then three times to the left to fire politicians who sell my tax dollars to buy other people’s votes, then we’d be getting somewhere. :0
lgm’s stupidity aside,
anyone find it funny that he has it wrong again? MM and the evil Christian Right are the ones fighting to end slavery, get women’s rights, etc. Not the NAG gang.
jrobets,
The west reformed. The mideast kills their reformers. Big difference
Why did you shift tense? That’s my point. At one point we killed our reformers. You could say “The West in 2008 has reformed, the West in 1914 was barbaric and rabidly nationalist and killed their reformers.” Or “The American South in 2008 has reformed [In that most of us treat Black folks as equals]. The South in 1859 killed their reformers [that is, abolitionists like John Brown].” The goal should be to avoid as much of the space between 1859 and 2008 as possible; i.e., to bring about the needed changes with as little bloodshed and backlash as possible, because bloodshed and backlash doesn’t do anyone any good for a long time (100 years in this example). Even when you’re right (as the abolitionists, of course, were), being antagonistic about it doesn’t do any good. This doesn’t mean we should overlook what’s wrong with Islam, just that we should talk about what’s wrong in a way that’s likely to be useful.
If I may be so bold to ask, how would you suggest non-Muslims should approach Muslims concerning their actions and worldview?
I will reasonably, respectfully argue with them, up until the point that they wish to do harm to my family or country, at which point I will “visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
“‘Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” Isaiah 6:8
The key words here are “contemporary standards”, you Monday Morning Quarterback. This country has been, since its founding, far above “contemporary” standards for the rest of the world, and remains so. In fact, the world has spent the last 250 years striving to reach our standards.
eye candy
eye candy
eye candy
This is a serious and fundamental misunderstanding of Islam. Islam states that the most glorious period was that time when Mohammad was alive and acting as prophet. Since then, humanity has gone in continuous downward spiral that can only be redeemed once the rightful Caliphate is once again in charge. Thus, modernity is at odds with Islam, as it represents the furthest possible time period away from the time of Mohammad. Further consider that the doors of Ijtihad were closed in the 12 century, meaning that Muslims could no longer use reason to interpret the Koran. Given that 12th century reason is considerably different than 21st century reason, it stands to believe that those who follow the strict doctrine of Islamic radicalism would be opposed to all aspects modernism. There is nothing we can say or do to change this, and “newspeak” that will not offend this type of Muslim does not exist.
In contrast, Christianity believes that we are in an upward trend since the death of Christ. Hence the idea that we can learn from our mistakes and improve upon them, with a critical eye towards the past, is not only acceptable, but encouraged.
I’d say that’s a pretty big difference.